Souderton rallies past CB South
Big Red boys and girls surge to 2-0 with wins over Titans
After five events Friday, the Souderton Area girls had fallen behind Central Bucks South, but Big Red wasn’t rattled.
They just put in twice the work in the 200-yard freestyle relay.
“Alexa Crossgrove did a great job anchoring the B relay — so good,” said Big Red senior Jenny Rogers. “Getting first and second in that event just helped us gain confidence to win the meet. And it put us all in a good mindset.”
Souderton’s first- and secondplace finish in the free relay sent the Big Red girls onto a 100-86 victory over the Titans while the Souderton boys also took care of business, winning 101-85 in the Suburban One League Continental Conference clash.
Both Souderton squads raised their record to 2-0 in the conference.
“A great start,” Indians coach Rob Faccenda. “We’re coming off really hard training over the break and the kids are a little tired but they really swam well, gave us a great effort.”
After diving, the Souderton girls won five straight events, including the free relay, where a team of Jordyn Grossman, Frankie Ferlick, K.K. Hershey and Rogers finished with a winning time of 1:44.31. The B relay foursome of Lael Flores, Alexis Krebs, Clara Burrell and Crossgrove hustled to 1:46.58, nudging South by seven hundredths of a second.
“The meet was really close at that point and we really needed it,” Faccenda said. “Clara and Alexa stepped up to get second, and that was the meet for the girls, getting one-two there. It was a great team effort to be able to do that.”
The medley relay provided an early jump, with Hailey Freed, Burrell, Rogers and Ferlick team-
ing up for a first-place time of 1:50.75.
“Everyone was tired coming in but it felt good to put a win under our belt,” Rogers said of the medley.
Wins by Freed (50 free/100 back), Ferlick (100 fly), Rogers (100 free) and Crossgrove (500 free) helped cement the win for Souderton. The Big Red boys swept the relays and got a pair of wins each from Storm Krader (200 free/100 free) and T.J. Yaglenski (100 fly/100 back) in pushing past South.
“We’re in as good a place as we’ve been. We’re really excited — the kids are working hard,” Faccenda said. “We’re optimistic about the rest of the season and where we’re gonna end up so we’re in a really good place right now.
“We have North Penn on Tuesday which is certainly gonna be a challenge for us, but we’re gonna go in and swim hard and hope that they have great swims like we’re gonna have great swims and it should be fun.”
Boys Swimming Souderton Area 101, Central Bucks South 85 200 medley relay: Souderton (Storm Krader, Rory Sinkinson, T.J. Yaglenski, Austin Graham), 1:41.67; 200 free: Storm Krader (S) 1:48.32; 200 IM: Tom Khayt (CBS) 2:04.99; 50 free: Michael Dechert (S) 23.05; Diving: Wesley Ahart (S) 289.80; 100 fly: Yaglenski (S) 53.49; 100 free: Storm Krader (S) 49.32; 500 free: Jake Kramer (S) 4:58.33; 200 free relay: Souderton (Jake Kramer, Austin Graham, Rory Sinkinson, Michael Dechert), 1:32.94; 100 back: T.J. Yaglenski (S) 53.99; 100 breast: Tom Khayt (CBS) 1:04.70; 400 free relay: Souderton (T.J. Yaglenski, Jake Kramer, Michael Dechert, Storm Krader), 3:23.76.
Girls Swimming Souderton Area 100, Central Bucks South 86 200 medley relay: Souderton (Hailey Freed, Clara Burrell, Jenny Rogers, Frankie Ferlick), 1:50.75; 200 free: Kaylin Goodling (S) 1:48.32; 200 IM: Joy Schwedler (CBS) 2:26.01; 50 free: Hailey Freed (S) 25.0; Diving: Vita Shabalow (CBS) 218.25; 100 fly: Ferlick (S) 1:02.54; 100 free: Rogers (S) 54.40; 500 free: Crossgrove (S) 5:41.13; 200 free relay: Souderton (Jordyn Grossman, Ferlick, Hershey, Rogers), 1:44.31; 100 back: Freed (S) 59.57; 100 breast: Heidi Scholer (CBS) 1:11.56; 400 free relay: CB South (Kaylin Goodling, Lizzie Axler, Elizabeth Pluznyk, Heidi Scholer), 3:53.85.